Can we agree that every Pakistani politician has to take a basic Mathematic test before addressing the nation? Not hard stuff. Just: “If petrol is 380 rupees today, and you promised it would go down, ...
People suffer for something. For a grand cause, a family, a dream, a nation, or simply a better life. And in the end, they find their way, and somehow the suffering becomes meaningful. That is what ha...
Napoleon Bonaparte once said about Prussia: ” The army had a state, not the other way around. The state didn’t own the army. The army owned the state.” In Pakistan, add bureaucracy as well...
In his book, The Army and Democracy in Pakistan, Aqil Shah writes that after the British departure, the last check on the authority of the military and bureaucracy was also removed, which was the Brit...